Example sentences of "might [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way ‘ civilisations ’ had to make their mark , just in case they might disappear without trace . |
| 2 | On the other hand , the assets of the remaining 30 or 300 former partners would be protected ; their stake in the firm might disappear of course , but not their home . |
| 3 | The only circumstances under which it would be possible to remove the National Government were those which actually arose in May 1940 : " A new situation might arise of course , if any considerable number of Members of Parliament now supporting the Government . |
| 4 | What might arise with practice is a better routine for coping with jet-lag , and this is the aim of the next chapter . |
| 5 | The panel could provide a forum for both shareholders and auditors to air concerns that might arise in relation to audit appointments and corporate governance or other issues arising from the audit . |
| 6 | The location of the fieldwork meant that little comment could be made in relation to differences which might arise from work in an inner-city area with a significant ethnic minority population . |
| 7 | This is reflected in Articles of Government made under the 1986 Act in the procedures laid down for dealing with the exclusion of pupils from school and with the appeals which might arise from exclusion . |
| 8 | These groups might range from mother and toddler groups , to specific self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous , Weight Watchers , or Open Door . |
| 9 | The standards might relate to punctuality , appearance or , for that matter , common courtesies . |
| 10 | The dialogue , full of all the right buzz words and curses , might relate to hip kids , but will probably confound the very people it 's trying to enlighten . |
| 11 | A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’ |
| 12 | Some coins might remain in circulation for centuries . |
| 13 | Because those who re-offended went to prison automatically , without the possibility of a non-custodial sentence the next time they were convicted of an imprisonable offence , they might remain in custody for a longer time than would otherwise have been the case . |
| 14 | As a practical man , the dairyman might laugh at love , but love has a habit of changing people 's lives . |
| 15 | This opinion was so absolutely contrary to the general view of the man that Chambers merely laughed , as anyone might laugh at eccentricity . |
| 16 | If we take just one example , the social and public policy team , has therefore policy responsibility for all the work , erm , from a policy point of view , er , about the legal structure that might exist in future , er , European associations that might be created , because it matches very clearly our work on charity law , domestically . |
| 17 | One analogy which might spring to mind is of an archaeologist who reconstructs a fragmented mosaic . |
| 18 | Auntie Lou knew we might stay to tea but it 's getting late now and she 'll start to worry . ’ |
| 19 | I told them I might stay with Kit and Teresa … ’ |
| 20 | THE BEST sit-com ever made actually began a year earlier , written by estranged Hancock creators Ray Galton and Alan Simpson , but in '64 an episode was actually postponed on Election Day at the request of opposition leader Harold Wilson , who feared Labour voters might stay at home ( See ? |
| 21 | Irony is at the same time a characteristic form of the contemporary imagination and a way of thinking the specific forms of engagement which the distractions of the everyday and the interruptions of its temporality might facilitate in television viewing . |
| 22 | At the same time Penny said of Diana : ‘ If she were to fall in love with someone prepared to go through hell , fire and water — not to mention Royal opposition — for her , she might think about separation . ’ |
| 23 | You might think about skill level two . |
| 24 | The applications of a disciplined spatial intuition to art and design , and to the study of natural morphologies in every conceivable science is so great that perhaps we might think of geometry as a semi autonomous department of mathematics with different as well as overlapping purposes to abstract mathematics . |
| 25 | To emphasise this point , we can look briefly at some of the steps that banks might think of taking in order to circumvent the constraint . |
| 26 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 27 | The concluding paper , by Paula Boddington , returns to the issue of a women 's point of view and what difference this might make to philosophy , leaving the reader with a kind of map of the basic issues to be explored : ‘ an opening up of complexities ’ . |
| 28 | The learning that is expected from the accompanying ward experience can be made explicit , and here the names of the staff who might act as resource personnel can help the new learner particularly . |
| 29 | Here was a storeroom of statuary of deceased Sagramosos , exiled at the accession of a new Lord , though not condemned to be crushed to dust — their sheer enduring weight might act as anchor to the multi-thousand year dynasty . |
| 30 | Fears were raised that West Germany , by far the strongest EC economy , might concentrate on reunification with East Germany and slow down EC unity . |